Elle, the fetching Gamestress from the Xbox team at Microsoft, is pimping the new Xbox Live Vision webcam on the Xbox site.
The camera, which should be available tomorrow, is a 1.3MP still cam and a VGA-quality video cam. You can use it to chat live with your gaming buds (whilst hoping they’re wearing pants), take pics of yourself for in-game avatars, and trade footage of your girlfriend in the shower in exchange for, well, don’t do that.
It does quite a bit more, but you don’t need me to tell you about it, you need Elle at Xbox to tell you about it.
Smile! You’re on Xbox Vision [Xbox Community, via Gamescoreblog]
Does anyone know why modern webcams are still at such low-resolution? I understand mobile phones are a bit behind because of size and cost issues…but does a webcam have to be?
I’m curious to see what kind of camera-enabled games come out, or what kind of functionality regular games will have for the camera.
As an owner of the PS2 cam, I was disappointed with the software support for it. I hope the 360 can do better.
Look at this french website,
They already have it !
http://www.journaldugamer.com/index.php?2006/09/15/2672-impressions-la-live-vision
Yeah, I hope they’ll make a few fun games with this camera… The EyeToy games had a bunch of nice ideas, but nothing really good came out of it. Hopefully this fares better.
I can’t really see this taking off. But then again, I can’t see how this could be fully integrated into a game. Seems like it would be more of a distraction.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
i got it!
they need different resolutions to cater for different internet speeds, so faster internet can get better resolution!